I was feeling both in my thighs and “core” last night. Yesterday was the first time my gym offered its 90-minute yoga class. It was *awesome*. I love doing it, and surprisingly even after doing yoga hardcore, I might notice a little stiffness, but I’ve not suffered a pulled muscle or strain because of it. Which is pretty crazy, because I’ve been holding some pretty brutal poses. At the time, it feels like devils and devas are high-fiving each other while stabbing pitchforks into your muscles, but about 30 minutes after it’s over you’re in bliss until the next session.

Unfortunately, the next yoga session is on Sunday morning. Not sure if I’m going to be awake for that, though I figure I’m going to give it an honest shot: Show up, yoga out, then go home and sleep for another hour or two.

So, outside of the gym, I was thinking of supplementing my yoga with More Yoga, so I started scoping out area classes and the like. Everything from Bikram Hot Yoga (the one where you wear shorts and a biker shirt, and they turn up the heat to about 100 while you sweat your nuts off, which sounds kinda awesome) to Regular Yoga at Regular Joe’s School of Regularity costs a friggin ton. The pricing scheme for yoga seems to be the same everywhere: It all averages out to approximately $12-15 per each single 90 minute class.  Some have passes where you pre-pay and get them stamped as you go, but they too tend to cost around the same. Unlimited passes tend to run over $1200 a year.

The Bikram Hot Yoga place moved from mid-Raleigh to North Raleigh, and with their evening classes starting 30 minutes after work, there’s no way I could ever make it. Which is unfortunate, as they have a “come as many times as you want for up to 10 days” ticket for trial members. I figure that one of these days I’m going to take a week off of work and just hang out locally (maybe visit Rafi over in Columbia SC on a weekend). I’m going to probably do that plan then, and go like morning and evening for 10 days, then say “See ya!” (or, if it’s extremely unsettlingly fun, then perhaps get a pass and do it on Saturdays/Sundays or something).

Expensive Yoga is Expensive.